John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. In prison, he connected with a South American drug lord who was still running the family operation from inside the federal pen. Within months of being paroled, John began smuggling again—this time uncut Colombian cocaine. And this time, he put everything on the line: his freedom, his family and, ultimately, his life.

How the Zodiac and Son of Sam Serial Murders Were Meant to Usher in the Coming of Satan.

On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog—along with the ship’s crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore—on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans.

In 2013 a 17-year old student named Kendrick Johnson was found dead within a rolled up gym mat inside his Valdosta, Georgia high school. The county coroner said Johnson died from positional asphyxia after becoming stuck upside down within the mat. However, the Johnson family's own forensic expert strongly disagreed. The out-of-state pathologist hired by the Johnsons determined that "KJ" had been struck during an altercation inside the gymnasium, and had therefore been murdered. This article explores a third possibility . . . a more logical scenario that both experts seemed to have missed. ...

On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River.